Jonas Salk

Also known as Jonas Edward Salk

Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)

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Jonas Salk was a Jewish-American scientist who invented the polio vaccine in the 1950s, protecting millions of people from a serious disease that had caused widespread paralysis and death. His vaccine was one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the twentieth century and helped eliminate polio as a major public health threat in many parts of the world.

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Born: 1914-10-28
Died: 1995-06-23
Works: 10

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Anatomy Of Reality
Laboratory Life
Man Unfolding
World population and human values
How like an angel

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Active from: 2015
Active to: 2019-11-17

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,720x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,391x
Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 13,412x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,812x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,765x

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Quotes

“Edward R. Murrow: Who owns the patent on this vaccine? Jonas Salk: Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
“It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.”
“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”
“Why did Mozart compose music?”
“Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience … it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.”
“Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”

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Commons category: Jonas Salk
date of birth: 1914-10-28
date of death: 1995-06-23
name in native language: Jonas Salk
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Jonas Edward Salk (/sɔːlk/; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine.

In 1947, Salk accepted a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he undertook a project beginning in 1948 to determine the number of different types of poliovirus. For the next seven years, Salk devoted himself to developing a vaccine against polio.